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Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 4, 2012 21:06 UTC (Tue) by reddit (guest, #86331)
In reply to: Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level by drago01
Parent article: Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Ahhh... it is in these little details that one can see the greatness of the GNOME 3 team.

Lesser men would replace a broken design with a functional one, but they do not realize that doing so stops the engine of change that powers the whole Universe!

Instead, the truly enlightened always replace a broken design with a different broken one, so that the flow of change can continue forever unimpeded.


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Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 2:27 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

This guy is making me feel more sympathetic to GNOME developers with each new comment. A few more and I will start sending up patches.

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 9:26 UTC (Wed) by reddit (guest, #86331) [Link]

Good luck, have fun!

To start, I strongly suggest picking some highly established feature and replacing it with a semi-broken alternative that is much less discoverable and harder to use.

If they reject your patch, try making some unsubstantiated claims that your design works better with touch.

Anyway, congratulations, you are well on your way to a position on Red Hat's desktop team, where you'll finally be able to operate without the annoying constraint of having to write usable software.

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 11:23 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

I guess the slashdot account has been banned or something?

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 12:56 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

The guy is just trolling because he thinks it's funny. The names are part of the joke. Somebody probably told him to stop acting like he is a idiot on slashdot, so he renamed himself 'slashdot'. Nowadays reddit is the new slashdot so he renamed himself that because people were starting to simply ignore him.

This is my guess.

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 2:28 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

This guy is making me feel more sympathetic to GNOME developers with each new comment. A few more and I will start sending up patches.

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the next level

Posted Sep 5, 2012 2:28 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Sorry for the double posting.

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